Cerebrarium

Credits

Cerebrarium is built on open data shared by researchers and by the people who volunteered to be scanned. Thank you.

Data

  1. Halle skull micro-CT (Kirchner), Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 2022. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6108435

    Licence: CC BY 4.0. Used for: The skull in the 3D preview on the home page.

  2. Lüsebrink F, et al. Comprehensive ultrahigh resolution whole brain in vivo MRI dataset as a human phantom. Scientific Data 2021. doi.org/10.24352/ub.ovgu-2020-145

    Licence: CC0. Used for: The 7 Tesla MRI, angiograms and FreeSurfer segmentation of the volunteer. Also on OpenNeuro (ds003563).

  3. Yeh F-C. HCP1065 population-averaged tractography atlas. Nature Communications 2022.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Used for: Fibre tracts. Data provided by the Human Connectome Project, WU-Minn Consortium (Principal Investigators: David Van Essen and Kamil Ugurbil; 1U54MH091657) funded by the 16 NIH Institutes and Centers that support the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research; and by the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience at Washington University.

  4. MASSP 2.0 atlas of subcortical structures (Bazin et al. 2025; Alkemade et al.).

    Licence: CC BY 4.0. Used for: Subthalamic nucleus, substantia nigra, red nucleus, globus pallidus divisions, internal capsule, lateral geniculate body.

  5. Neudorfer C, et al. A high-resolution in vivo magnetic resonance imaging atlas of the human hypothalamic region. Scientific Data 2020.

    Licence: CC BY 4.0. Used for: Mammillary bodies, mammillothalamic tracts, hypothalamic region.

  6. Allen Human Reference Atlas 3D.

    Licence: CC BY 4.0. Used for: Thalamic nuclei (anterior, ventral anterior, ventral lateral, mediodorsal).

  7. Liu et al. Digital 3D Brain MRI Arterial Territories Atlas. Scientific Data 2023.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Used for: Arterial territories.

  8. TopBrain Challenge Data Release v3; Yang et al., TopBrain challenge (medRxiv 2026); The TopCoW Challenge (NEJM AI 2026). doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21972006

    Licence: see the data release. Used for: The arteries in the first circle of Willis reel.

Each reel’s page lists exactly which of these it uses, the facts it cites and what was drawn by hand.

Licences of the reels

Reels made only from CC0 and CC BY data are released under CC BY 4.0. Reels that include fibre tracts or arterial territories under CC BY-SA 4.0 are released under CC BY-SA 4.0. The licence is stated under every video.

Software and type

  • 3D viewer: three.js (MIT License), served from this site.
  • Typeface: Geist (Vercel), under the SIL Open Font License, served from this site.
  • Segmentation: FreeSurfer.